Can garlic prevent Covid-19?

Time:2020-04-14By:wendy

New coronavirus infections are becoming more and more serious. More and more countries and populations are affected. The data below is as of 10:00 on April 14, 2020. Data comes from Wikipedia, and cases are constantly updated from resources around the world. Daily situation reports are also available on the World Health Organization site.

Statistics

Location

Confirmed

Cases per 1M people

Recovered

Deaths

Worldwide

1,919,913

246.91

449,589

119,666

United States

586,057

1,778.32

43,637

23,604

Spain

170,099

3,611.41

64,727

17,756

Italy

159,516

2,647.86

35,435

20,465

Germany

130,072

1,564.32

57,259

3,194

France

98,076

1,462.16

27,718

14,967

United Kingdom

88,621

1,333.94

—

11,329

China

82,249

58.66

77,738

3,341

Iran

73,303

879.66

45,983

4,585

Turkey

61,049

734.16

3,957

1,296

Belgium

30,589

2,654.27

6,707

3,903

Netherlands

26,551

1,521.46

—

2,823

Switzerland

25,688

2,991.66

13,700

1,138

Canada

25,680

676.16

7,758

780

Brazil

23,753

112.39

—

1,355

Russia

18,328

124.9

1,470

148

In the face of increasingly serious infections with new coronaviruses, people began to look for various ways to prevent and treat them. One of the claims is that eating garlic can protect people from new coronavirus infections. Can eating garlic really prevent new coronavirus infections?

Although everyone is scrambling to buy garlic, Experts say eating garlic does not prevent COVID-19.

Garlic is a healthy food and may have some antibacterial properties. However, from the current epidemic situation, there is no evidence that garlic consumption can protect people from new coronavirus infections.

There is no way to prevent garlic infection by eating garlic. Because garlic is a kind of food, there is some allicin in garlic. Allicin has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of certain bacterial infections, but the new coronavirus pneumonia is a viral infection, and this viral infection is still a kind of New virus infection. Eating garlic has no effect on the prevention and treatment of new coronavirus infections. Garlic as a food, if you usually have the habit of eating garlic, it is also possible to eat some during home isolation or prevention, no problem.

Garlic does not prevent coronavirus infection. At present, there is no effective medicine or food that can prevent the infection of new coronavirus. There is no vaccine that can prevent the infection of new coronavirus. If we want to prevent the infection of new coronavirus, we can only prevent it by means of coronavirus infection.

How to protect us from COVID-19?

The COVID-19 mainly causes infection through respiratory droplets, direct contact, and aerosols. Therefore, during the outbreak, we should follow some rules:

Do:

Wash hands frequently: wash regularly with soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer for 20 seconds

Spraying alcohol or disinfectant: Avoid touching objects in public places with your hands. If you touch it, spray it with alcohol or disinfectant you carry with you or wash your hands with hand sanitizer in time.

Cover your body with a tissue: When coughing or sneezing, cover your nose and mouth with a disposable tissue or a curved elbow

Keep distance: Try to avoid going to crowded places and avoid face-to-face communication. Avoid close contact with people who are unwell (1 meter or 3 feet). If you need to communicate face-to-face with people, you should try to keep a distance of more than one meter, and wear a mask.

Do Not:

If your hands are not clean, please touch your eyes, nose or mouth.

Avoid going to a confined space. If you need to go upstairs, try to avoid taking an elevator instead of climbing stairs.